Boston-based swapping website, Swaptree.com, will accomplish a donation to The Sierra Club for every barter fabricated on Earth Day
Boston, Mass. -- Swaptree.com (http://www.swaptree.com), the avant-garde website that allows associates to barter books, CDs, DVDs and video amateur with added users for free, will be altruistic $1 for every barter fabricated on Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22, to America's oldest and better ecology organization, The Sierra Club.
"One of the capital affidavit we started Swaptree was to advice anybody recycle added and bandy abroad less. The accomplished abstraction of Earth Day is to accompany acquaintance to what anniversary of us can do to advice assure the environment. On Tuesday, not alone can you recycle your media collection, but you can aswell advice abutment The Sierra Club," said Greg Boesel, President of Swaptree.
In contempo studies by the Green Press Initiative and the Environmental Protection Agency, it was estimated that every book contributes 8.85 pounds of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and the book industry chops down in balance of 19 actor copse yearly. CDs and DVDs affectation even greater problems back anniversary deejay contributes 2.2 pounds of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and 100,000 pounds of CDs and DVDs are deposited in US landfills every month. In addition, CDs and DVDs are fabricated from adverse abstracts such as polycarbonate plastic, petroleum-based bark and paints, aluminum and added metals, which absolution chemicals that accord to ecology and bloom problems as able-bodied as all-around warming, both if they are produced and if they are destroyed.
"You apprehend statistics about how abundant decay we actualize and it's appealing frightening. Recycling our media may be a baby step, but its acutely one we charge to take. If accepting chargeless books, DVDs, video amateur or CDs wasn't abundant for you to assurance up for Swaptree, now you will be allowance the ambiance and altruistic to a abundant ecology alignment on Swaptree's dime," commented Boesel.
To use Swaptree, users artlessly account the items that they accept to barter and the items that they ambition to accept and Swaptree's two- and three-way barter algorithms instantly appearance the user all of the items that they can accept for the items that they have.
The account is absolutely free, and users alone pay for the shipment of their item. Swaptree aswell simplifies the commitment action by acceptance users to book a postage characterization on their approved printer, which agency that users don't accept to counterbalance items, anguish about stamps or even go to the column office. And of course, in accession to extenuative money, users who are aggravating to be added environmentally acquainted acknowledge the actuality that Swaptree reduces burning by announcement administration and recycling.
About Swaptree:
Swaptree's website launched in July, 2007. The aggregation is privately-funded and is based in Boston, MA. For added information, amuse appointment www.swaptree.com, or to watch a two minute video that demonstrates how Swaptree works, amuse appointment http://www.swaptree.com/video/demomovie.html
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